Initially, I think like that too. However, the bluetooth always go off when I switch it off. Thus, I believe that the switch has to be connected to the bluetooth. From the 2nd picture, you can notice that the bluetooth indicator light goes off when I switch it off ... In order to verify my hypothesis is true, maybe you can try on your GF's laptop ...

Welcome to our new Dell Inspiron 1420 thread. Thanks for sharing with us your specifications of your laptop. First and foremost, I have heard from you that your Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop occured GPU problem after 1.4 years of usage and eventually lead to the failure of motherboard. At that moment, are you still in warranty period? If not, how much you need to pay for your swapping of motherboard?

Besides that, how much your laptop cost you when you 1st bought it? Like mine, I have bought mine for RM 3700 including a Targus backpack.


PS: I have added your name into our "List of Glory" ...

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 16 2010, 02:57 AM

O.I.C ... Anyway, why don't you try on the Microsoft's newest OS- Windows 7. I think it will run as smooth as Windows XP too ...

Oh yea, how many years of warranty do you have for your laptop?

Sorry to hear that. Actually, when you lost your Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop & how did it being stolen? As I saw from your location status- Melbourne, Australia, did you lost your laptop there?

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 17 2010, 01:16 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, I would like to share with you guys my laptop accessories which I have used them along with my Dell Inspiron 1420 for 2 years. Hereby, I would like to show you guys my mouse, that is, V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for Bluetooth (White) . For your informations, I bought my mouse right after I received my laptop. The main reason I bought Logitech mouse is because I personally believe the quality built that was promised by Logitech though the price was quite high at that time. The colour is white which I purposely chose it in order to match it with my alpine white laptop. Below are some pictures of my precious mouse:





This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 18 2010, 06:23 AM

You are welcome to our thread though ... Actually, Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop has GPU problem ... did your uncle's laptop equipped with NVidea GeForce 8M?

Hello guys,

Today, I would like to share with you guys my Dell Inspiron 1420's Benchmark. As you can see from my screenshots, my CPU and GPU temperatures are relatively high. How about you guys?



This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 27 2010, 11:33 PM

I did the temperature measurement by lying my laptop on my table without using any laptop cooler. The room temperature here is around 20 degree celcius as now is still consider winter at Germany. In my opinion, the CPU and GPU temperatures are quite high compared to other laptops. How about your uncle's one?

In simple words, your laptop can't boot up into the Windows? Right? Recently, did you installed some new softwares? Maybe you can try to scan your hardwares in order to check their functionality. If there are no problems occured, then that might be a big probability that you have installed some incompatible softwares into your laptop. Thus, you can try to reset your laptop to previous date and boot it up again. All the best!

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 1 2010, 02:14 PM

For the hardware scan, you press the button "F12" before booting the Windows. After that, you select the hardware scan in order to proceed. Then, let it scan your hardwares and wait until it finishes.

PS: I have added your name into our "List of Glory".

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 2 2010, 04:32 PM

All the best for your laptop. Anyway, "List of Glory" is a list of Dell Inspiron 1420 owners' name which I have created specially for this thread. You can refer to the 1st post of this thread.

Here is mine, share with us yours too.

(i) The Temp. without ZM NC2000 Notebook Cooler:



(ii) The Temp. with ZM NC2000 Notebook Cooler:

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Added on March 10, 2010, 3:08 amI'm not really sure about this. Oh yea, you are Dell Inspiron 1420 user too? May I add your name into our "List of Glory"?

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 14 2010, 04:49 PM

Glad to have you here with us ...I already add you into our "List of Glory". Please share with us your exp. of being the Dell Inspiron 1420 owner ... love to hear that!

For the time being, I do not have the optical drive eject problem. What happen to yours anyway? You can try to eject the optical drive by right click the optical drive icon at "My Computer" and then select "eject".

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Added on March 22, 2010, 7:33 pmYea, I believe that Dell Inspiron 1420 only comes with NVidea GeForce 8400M GS which is a problematic GPU series in laptop. Why you asked so?

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 22 2010, 07:34 PM

In my humble opinion, Zalman notebook cooler served me and most of the other end users very well. Thus, maybe you can consider of buying a Zalman notebook cooler? Anyway, I never saw the review on this type of notebook cooler. So, I'm not really sure whether it is really efficient on dissipating heat from the laptop. Nevertheless, it still depends on your budget. If your budget is around:

(i) RM200 = Zalman NC2000.
(ii) RM100 - RM199 = Zalman NC1000 or NC1500.
(iii) RM 50 - RM 99 = Cooler Master NotePal Color Infinite, Cooler Master NotePal U2 and etc.

Besides of Zalman NC2000, I also recommend you to buy Cooler Master NotePal U2 which you can adjust your location of the fan. I have seen some reviews on this and all are positive feedbacks from the laptop owners.

Below is the unboxing video of my Zalman NC2000:



This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 28 2010, 07:35 PM

Yea, I know that they are not cooling pad. Anyway, why your laptop's temperature is so high though you are using a notebook cooler too? What is your current notebook cooler brand? May I have a look on your screen shot of your temperature monitoring sensors such as HWMonitor?

Last but not least, Cooler Master NotePal U2 is really a good choice as it is cheap and relatively good with its adjustable fan.

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Added on March 28, 2010, 7:23 pmAs you can see from the unboxing video in YouTube above, I have ordered it from Amazon.de as in Germany I hardly can find the Zalman products from the electronic shops which is really pathetic and it cost me around 46 EUROS. As for shops in Malaysia, I think you can find it in any Low Yatt Plaza shops but I do come across a Low Yatt Forumer who bought it quite cheap from a dealer in this forum. Click this.

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 28 2010, 07:33 PM

I think your notebook cooler is not suitable for Dell Inspiron 1420. Anyway, are you a gamer? If you do, then it is probably one of the contributing factors.

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Mar 28 2010, 08:00 PM

Actually, I'm not a gamer. Thus, I'm not really good at these stuffs such as frame per second and etc. Nevertheless, I do know that playing games can heat up the GPU instantly.

Have you went to the "Power Options" inside the "Control Panel" to check whether you have accidentally lowered the plan brightness or not?